After a long two years, we are ready to issue bonuses in time for 1/18. We thank you for your participation in various conflicts, or at least your great patience as they took place.
Population increases: 2% except for:
CSA - 2.5%
Japan - 2.5%
Maoria - 2.5%
RRC - 2% - war cancels out efforts
DKB, Netherlands - 1.75% - mobilized long enough to make a dent
NS - 2% - entertainment value of civil war offsets temptation to adjust downward
Refugees had to reflect active efforts to pick up refugees, or at least some interest in taking them in. It can be assumed that they were transported over the course of the past two years, but are only now being integrated into the economy and issued citizenshp.
Austria - 50,000
Italy - 200,000
GC - 25,000
Iberia - 25,000
Orange - 10,000
ESC - 100,000
Story/gaming bonuses - for guys like Tex or Guinness, in the process of moving, they can decide where they wish to apply it. We decided to issue it in civilian cash; you can make use of it in 1/18 or 2/18 as you see fit (though we'd remind you of that IC:BP ratio discussion...)
Substantial: $300 Civilian
Modest: $75 Civilian
Minor: $37.50 Civilian
Mike - substantial - significant contributions to the sim.
Logi - modest
Borys - modest
Charles - modest
Me - modest
Guinness - substantial - significant contributions to the sim.
Walter - modest
Foxy - modest
Maddox - modest
tex - modest
Jef - modest
Sam - substantial - timely orders in the Siam War, and willingness to settle after Korpen left
ledeper - modest
tan - modest
Kirk - modest
Valles - modest
Blooded- minor
Nobody - minor
Hooper - modest
Ciders - minor
Yay!
Looot.... :o
Im rich Im wealthy Im a greedy little miser.... Im Socialy secure 8)
:)
HOLY $%#@!
Michael
Quote from: miketr on November 11, 2009, 10:29:02 AM
HOLY $%#@!
Michael
There, that's what I was trying to put into words. Thanks Mike for the statement, and the Mod Squad for the $$. :D
I think it is mandatory that the two of you donate all that cash to a poor nation that really needs it (=> Egypt). :)
*Kaiser puts on his reading glasses, that NO ONE makes fun of*
Egypt....Egypt...Egypt...AH..there it is. That little speck north of Ost Afrika? Why would We care about it. It's surrounded by either Allies or at least non-enemies. Well, except the damnable Turk to the East. But I don't fear the Turk, I'm friends with the Inquisitor AND the Pope.
*Kaiser takes off his reading glasses, that NO ONE makes fun of*
Hahaha ;D
You're so generous. ;D
More seriously, $37,50... it's just the revenue of Egypt for one half-year.
Hey, free IC! Excellent!
*polite bow* Thank you for this gift. I shall endeavor to use it wisely.
I get a bonus? Cool :)
*bows* Thank you.
*smiles* YAY more money to spend on Ahtena
YAY!!! More money to use on operation build a giant tunnel to collaspe Gran Columbia into bribing the French! ;D ;D
Confederate Forces rearranging the Gran Columbia Landscape. ;D
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Hawthorn_Ridge_mine_1_July_1916.jpg)
1864-Petersburg or that thing during World War I?
Hawthorn Ridge mine. July 1, 1916.
Ahh.. Looks like the tunnel mine from Petersburg. A sorry event. Burnside should have been executed.
No success in 1916 either. Just failure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8YfJmwY5Uo
I just knew someone was going to post the British minning of the German ridge that overlooked their trenches. It wasnt just hawthrone ridge but a whole series of massive mines.
Charles
Population increase 2%
Civilian bonus + 75$ (That's Ichu gold mine !!!)
Thanks for Peru.
I think that NUS (Argentina & Paraguay) population increase by 2% too.
Jef ;)
I think they are many refugees in the world. NUS will be very very happy to receive all these people. :D
QuoteI just knew someone was going to post the British minning of the German ridge that overlooked their trenches.
What? Gut feeling? :)
QuoteIt wasnt just hawthrone ridge but a whole series of massive mines.
True but the hawthrone ridge mine was one of the three larger mines used and it is famous for the recordings made of ithe blast ("one of the most famous pieces of film footage of World War I" according to wiki).
Actually looking at what wiki indicates, it looks to me that Meade and Grant are the ones who should be shot, not Burnside. Burnside was just incompetent. Meade and Grant were the ones who changed the plan and created the mess which Burnside had to sort out (what he couldn't do as he was, as I said, incompetent).
Battle of the Crater and the Hawthorn Ridge share the similarity that the plan was changed, resulting in failure.
Quote from: Walter on November 12, 2009, 02:32:00 AM
Actually looking at what wiki indicates, it looks to me that Meade and Grant are the ones who should be shot, not Burnside. Burnside was just incompetent. Meade and Grant were the ones who changed the plan and created the mess which Burnside had to sort out (what he couldn't do as he was, as I said, incompetent).
Odd, I used to know the Civil War rather well, but apparently forgot Meade's role in changing the troops assigned, I thought that was just Grant. Earlier he had essentially been running the Army of the Potomac as three seperate commands he coordinated- Meade, Burnside (senior to Meade), Sheridan (Cav). Which worked out so well in the Wilderness Campaign....
Anyhow, Burnside was promoted well above his level of competence, should have been left a Brigade or Division commander. But in his defense, when he was promoted in 1862 he told Lincoln he wasn't up to the task.
Then came Fredericksburg, where after the debacle of Marye's Heights he considered leading attacks on Day 2 but was talked out of it.